a dangling participle造句

• It offends like a dangling participle, untidy and out of whack.
• The specific articles cover such mechanical things as when to use a semicolon and what a dangling participle is,
• I can help, with the following Field Guide To Whom To Root For ( and what to do with a dangling participle ):
• I think I had a dangling participle or something further above, so I understand the misunderstanding and I apologize to you for it.
• :Is it really possible that we've had all this discussion without anybody pointing out that the sentence contains a dangling participle?
• Not only was I cited, but I got beat up in the bathroom with a dangling participle and a sentence fragment by someone with shaky handwriting.
• Because the participle phrase in an absolute construction is not semantically attached to any single element in the sentence, it is easily confused with a dangling participle.
• Due to the distinction between adjectival and adverbial participles, in Polish it is practically impossible to make a dangling participle mistake in the classical English meaning of the term.
• In the " Scarface " tradition, the profanity that begins with " F " is used as a verb, a noun, an adjective, an adverb and, most definitely, a dangling participle.
• I don't have any hard figures, but I suspect I am part of a small minority of people who know what a dangling participle is and how to spell the name of Gisele Bundchen, the Brazilian cover girl.
• And it's not a dangling participle; it's a gerund, as in " making the meaning clear is what the word is there for " .-- talk ) 21 : 55, 16 April 2014 ( UTC)
• The difference is that the participial phrase of a dangling participle is intended to modify a particular noun, but is instead erroneously attached to a different noun, whereas a participial phrase serving as an absolute clause is not intended to modify any noun at all.
• Because the non-finite clause, called the "'absolute clause "'( or simply the "'absolute "'), is not semantically attached to any single element in the sentence, it is easily confused with a dangling participle.
• The ranks of those who have been goofed include President Clinton, an evidently remorseless offender; ABC newsman Sam Donaldson, who babbled, " Do other parts of Mars look differently ? " when he should have said " different "; and " Jeopardy " host Alex Trebek, who was alerted by a SPELL member that one of his show's clues contained a dangling participle.